The False One by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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Who sells her honour for a Diamond,
Who, for a tissew robe: whose husband's jealous, And who so kind, that, to share with his wife, Will make the match himself: Harmless conceits, Though fools say they are dangerous: I sang it The last night at my Lord _Photinus_ table. _Ach._ How? as a Fidler? _Sep._ No Sir, as a Guest, A welcom guest too: and it was approv'd of By a dozen of his friends, though they were touch'd in't: For look you, 'tis a kind of merriment, When we have laid by foolish modesty (As not a man of fashion will wear it) To talk what we have done; at least to hear it; If meerily set down, it fires the blood, And heightens Crest-faln appetite. _Ach._ New doctrine! _Achil._ Was't of your own composing? _Sep._ No, I bought it Of a skulking Scribler for two Ptolomies: But the hints were mine own; the wretch was fearfull: But I have damn'd my self, should it be question'd, That I will own it. |
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